Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-04-14

THREE Chinese passengers On vessel
which reached San Francisco the other day
| were down with the smallpox.
JUDGE GRESHAM. in the United States
John McNuita, of Bloomington, Ill, to be
receiver of the Wabash railway lines east
of the Mississippi river.
| THE Labor ticket carried Dubuque, Iowa
on the 4th by good majority.
An explosion occurred at Savanna, near
| Vinita. i. T., at coal shaft No. 2, on.the 18th
| by which six miners were instantly killed.
| A rescuing party soon went down and
| twelve of these men were suffocated by the
gas, making total of eighteen deaths.
THE Northern Pacific express Office and
Mcguire Opera House, Missoula, Mont,
burned the other morning. No insurance.
The furniture in the opera house was
saved, but the express company lost every
| thing.
| Chicago, were overcome by carbonic oxide
gas from smoldering coke the other day,
and Peter Kley died from the effects. Two
| others were reported very low.
LATER returns from Michigan indi-
| Gated the defeat of the Prohibition amend
ment by $500.
THE complete count for mayor of Gin
cinnati showed: Smith, Republican, H.
963; Matson, Democrat, 1881; Steven
son. Labor, 1887; Smiths plurality, 500
Nicely, Democrat Labor, carried Leaven-
worth, Kan, against Garrigues, Repub-
icaan Prohibition, on the 5th. The election
was protested by the friends of the latter.
THE Kansas City, Mo-, election of the 5th
went Republican. Kumpf, Republican, for
mayor, received 6, 429; Worthen, Democrat,
g. 1874; Welsh, Labor, 1,925.
By a rear collision of freight trains on
the Louisville, New Albany q Chicago rail-
way near Bedford, Ind, recently Conduc-
tor Ealy, of New Albany and Mrs. Corder,
of Guthrie, were fatally injured and Mrs.
Noah Prichett and daughter seriously hurt.
MILWAUKEE on the 5th gave majority for
the Labor candidates, but the towns polled
Fusion vote that overtopped the Labor
vote in the city and elected the Fusion ju-
dicial candidates by a majority of nearly
1,5O0.
THE scalpers have been badly scalped by
the Interstate Commerce law. Said one of
the men at Chicago the otner day: 1--WE
are knocked out completely. All we can
do is to sell out what we have on hand and
go out of business. The penalties of the
new law are so great that we would be I'M
able to get any tickets without stealing
them, and there is law against that also,
am told"
THE other night two factions, one for
Concidine and the other for Thorpe, for
alderman of the First ward, of Litchtield,
Ill, became involved and a fight ensued
which lasted nearly two hours. The police
force were helpless and could do nothing
with the mob, and many men were badly
beaten and bruised.
A REPORT from ST. John, Co1usa County,
Cal, says that a Chinese cook shot and
killed Mrs. Joseph Billion, with whom he
was employed; he also wounded another
lady and a man. Great excitement pre-
vailed. A posse went in pursuit of the
murderer.
JUDGE PORTS, general solicitor of the
Missouri Pacific Railway Company, has
given an opinion that the recent action of
the trunk lines in refusing to sell the tick
cts of one road and agreeing to sell those of
another violates the Interstate Commerce
law, which provides that no road shall dis
criminate against another and shall offer
equal facilities to all
THE will of Francis Palms has been de-
clared void at Detroit, Mich. The will gave
1000, 600 to the children, to be held by them
in trust for their children, and friendly
contest was begun to secure a legal dccis-
ION. In his decision Judge Jennison holds
that the statutes are against controlling
fortunes from generation to generation.
THE SOUTH.
COLONEL WILLIAM H. MARTIN, the Demo
cratic nominee, has been elected to Con-
gress from the Second district of Texas to
fill the unexpired term of John II. Reagan.
A very light vote was polled. The Repub-
icans presented no candidate.
FIFTEEN hundred head of horses were
seized at San Antonio, Tex, recently by
Captain Hudgins, inspector of customs at
Laredo, and Colonel William Thompson,
revenue officer at Brownsville as contra
Eand. and a grand smuggling case is being
worked up. The names of those engaged
in it will be made public.
News from Yorkville, S. c., announced
the lynching of five negroes on the 9Th. The
men murdered a boy last December who in
formed on them for stealing from fields.
They were taken to Columbia some time
back for safety and went back to Yorkvllle
for trial.
THE statue of General John ston was I'M
yelled in Metaire Cemetery, New Orleans,
on the 9th by great-grand-daughter of the
General Jefferson Davis and other lead
ers of the ex-Confederacy were present, to-
gether with an immense concourse of vet
Grams and citizens.
CAPTAIN DABNEY, of the British steam
ship Harbinger, reported at Baltimore an
earthquake experienced on the night of
March 81. The vessel well-nigh foundered.
WILLIAM HOWELL. farmer in the east
ern part of Hardeman County, Tennessee
recently killed his son accidentally. The
lad ran under his fathers axe.
Hon. d. WYATT AIKEN, late Representa-
tive in Congress from the Third South
Carolina district, died at his home in Cokes-
bury, s. c.. on the 9th, aged fifty-nine He
had been i'll for a long time
Hon. HOWARD Cross, Judge of the Fed
eral court for the district of Arkansas from
1882 to 1888, and member of the Twenty
sixth, Twenty seventh and Twenty-eighth
Congresses from Arkansas, died at Little
Rock on the 9th, aged eighty-nine years
1T was reported that Thoebe, the Labor
candidate had failed to make case against
the election of Speaker Carlisle in Ken
lucky and had abandoned the contest
THIRTEEN workmen were reported seri-
ously and fatally injured by the caving in
of the Swannona tunnel, near Asheville.
N. C., recently. The men were repairing